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BIOGRAPHY

Joey Summer came from a Greek descent but born in Brazil. He started too early in music. Son of an opera singer, Ruth Salvaterra, Joey learned to love music and the composition since his very young age.The music came from many different ways into his life. Joey’s first instrument was his own voice. He used to help his mother in rehearsals for choir that she produced. Later, after his first contact with rock music, Joey began composing his first songs inspired by the sound of bands like Kiss, Whitesnake, Queen, Journey, Scorpions, among others. Also participated in several bands but formed his own band at age of 14 years old with a little help from his brother, Geremias on the drums.

After several years in the professional music and songs released in heavy rock scene, were able to form a band, Karma, which had some success with their songs performed on radio stations in and out of their country and coming to the Netherlands. One single was release it “Love’s A Gun“. But they never played outside of Brazil at that time. Some years later, Joey Summer and keyboardist Daniel Lamas, formed the Arena. AOR band who also released an album. “O Tempo Vai Mostrar” After two years together, the band split up and Joey Summer started to play with other artists and recording several studio albums and live DVDs. But in early 2009, Joey released his first solo album titled: ‘NASCER’. Produced by himself and assisted for his brother of productions from the times of Arena band, Daniel Lamas. The album featured the hit single ‘Rough Ride To Paradise‘, courtesy of Kee Marcello, former guitarist for the group Europe. In this new phase, Joey Summer began to attract the attention of artists and fans from other countries, because the song in English, they started a interest in hear more of the work of Joey Summer. New foreign friends have joined forces to new project to be launched in April 2010. ‘Written On The Horizon’. Some of them are: Michael Bormann, former lead singer of the German melodic hard rock band Jaded Heart that gave the track “Anymore” for this project. Also the bassist of Jaded Heart, Michael Muller, played in the same track and brightens even more the version of Joey for this song that was a ‘classic’ in the discography of JH. Fredrik Bergh, from the Swedish band Street Talk, also participated in the keyboards of their own song ‘Don’t Believe’ and even gave ‘Tables Turning’ to the repertoire of WOTH. Fredrik plays in the band that have Goran Edman as the lead singer,. Goran is formed vocalist of Ynguiew J. Malmsteen and recorded two albuns with him: “Eclipse” and “Fire and Ice”.

Joey Summer is now focused on providing the best for this project that cames to mark his career also outside of his country.

In the worldwide press

Joey Summer, interview for SLEAZE METAL, Germany [ 12.07.2010, by Jorg Brenzel] Wir haben seit Beginn immer wieder kleineren und unbekannteren Künstler bei uns die Chance gegeben sich und ihre Musik genauer vorzustellen. Auch wenn Die Bands und Namen in den letzten Jahren schon Größer und Bekannter wurden, greifen wir immer wieder mal auf neue Bands zurück.
Joey Summer, album review from ROCK TIMES, Germany

[ 14.07.2010 , by Boris Theobald] Mensch, wie klein ist die Welt … da macht der Brasilianer Joey Summer daheim in Rio de Janeiro Rockmusik und findet dafür ein Label in Ommersheim im beschaulichen Bliesgau im Saarland, Avenue Of Allies. Aber auch schon vorher hat sich der Musiker mit der Perma-Sonne im Familiennamen in der großen weiten Welt umgehört und umgeschaut. Nicht nur, was die musikalische Inspiration angeht – nein, Mr. Summer macht eben keinen Samba – sondern ist auch auf der Suche nach namhaften Gästen.
Joey Summer, interview regarding WOTH album from CAROLINA ZARDO|Press Advisory, Brazil [ 07.07.2010 , by Henrique Lemos] Olá Joey! Obrigado por me receber no escritório da sua casa e pelo café! Parabéns pelo café inclusive! Em minha segunda entrevista com você, hoje abordando assuntos bem interessantes com relação ao seu novo projeto, fico feliz de estar acompanhando sua trajetória já a 6 anos.
Joey Summer, interview for the brazilian portal WHIPLASH, regarding the new album, WOTH, Brazil [ 07.07.2010 , by Reginaldo Franco] Régis Franco – Olá Joey. Um prazer entrevistar você novamente. Desta vez com um telefone sem chiados. (nota – na última entrevista que fiz com o Joey Summer, ambos os telefones chiavam muito.) – Joey Summer – Olá Régis. Pois é, hoje está som de CD. (risos)
Joey Summer, review from UK, UBER ROCK [ 09.07.2010 , by David Prince] So straight off the cuff you can see the calibre of musicianship on offer. Joey is part of Avenue of Allies Music, who include Shining Line, State Cows, Angeline, Wheels Of Fire and Skill In Veins in their ranks just to mention a few. So the AOR here is fantastic car driven, groin driven rock.
Joey Summer, review from MELODIC NET, Sweden [ 09.07.2010 , by Juha Harjula ] The German label Avenue Of Allies have released interesting albums this year as Wheels of Fire, Shining Line, State Cows and Angeline. Now they release an album with Joey Summer
Joey Summer, review from ROCK REPORT, Belgium [ 21.06.2010 , by "unknown"] Of all four albums Avenue Of Allies Music has released simultaneously on June 18 (2010), this one from Brazilian melodic rocker Joey Summer is probably the one that I like most